Neung-heo said to Cheon Mubaeck.

“He is the Master of the Pine Truth Sect, a secular branch of Shaolin, Baek Gong-yang. Although he looks shabby and somewhat lacking, I heard that he is quite skilled. At the beginning of the peak, they say. Looking at his appearance, he looks just like a back-alley boss.”

“Neung-heo.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t you know how to use telepathy?”

“Does everyone and their dog use telepathy?”

“But do you have to say it out loud in front of people?”

“I said it quietly.”

“He’s at the beginning of the peak. Do you think he can’t hear that?”

“Oh.”

“What do you mean, ‘oh’?”

The Master of the Pine Truth Sect, Baek Gong-yang, was dumbfounded at the strange sight unfolding before him.

Look at that nonchalant attitude, even though his subordinates were all exuding a blade-like momentum.

“Ah. I’m sorry. My subordinate has a loose tongue.”

Moreover, at Cheon Mubaeck’s words, Baek Gong-yang felt something welling up inside him for a moment.

Because it was a tone that did not feel sorry at all.

“Are you kidding me?”

“Kidding? What do you mean? It was a real mistake.”

Padeuk.

At Cheon Mubaeck’s nonchalant tone, Baek Gong-yang’s face hardened.

A crooked way of speaking that seemed to be mixed with informal speech.

Cheon Mubaeck’s nonchalant expression and the guy who had just spouted strange words, not through telepathy but in reality, also had a nonchalant expression. They were doing it on purpose.

Baek Gong-yang bit his lip slightly.

‘I thought I could use him well since the youngest son had come…’

The Pine Truth Sect had also investigated the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency from various angles.

It was easy to confirm that Cheon Mungyeong doted on Cheon Mubaeck.

So Baek Gong-yang had moved quickly when he heard that the youngest son had come to the Shaolin Temple.

A young child of only sixteen.

A child who was so weak that he could not go outside because of his poor health.

If he pressured him tangibly and intangibly, wouldn’t the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency feel the pressure?

Baek Gong-yang secretly let out his killing intent.

There were dozens of people in the crowded crowd.

It was not easy to let out killing intent to just one of them. The fact that Baek Gong-yang could do that was proof that he was a peak martial artist who had reached that level.

‘Hmph. I’ll make him wet his pants in front of his father!’

The rough momentum that had been honed in the brutal martial world was difficult for a mere teenager to withstand, even if he did not directly infuse his internal energy.

But Cheon Mubaeck was calm.

He just narrowed his brow slightly as if he were displeased.

“I’m curious as to why you’re spewing killing intent at me when we’ve just met today.”

Baek Gong-yang was surprised for a moment.

‘He noticed the killing intent?’

It was a very secretly released killing intent.

If he hadn’t learned martial arts, he wouldn’t have been able to detect the killing intent. All he would have felt was a cold sweat all over his body and a strange phenomenon.

‘Moreover, he knew it was me?’

He was speaking while looking directly at him.

Did he immediately realize that he was the one who had secretly released the killing intent among these many people?

Baek Gong-yang looked at Cheon Mubaeck with a new gaze.

‘Has he learned martial arts?’

Unlike what he had heard in the rumors, he looked healthy. No, he was not just healthy, but he looked like a young martial artist who had trained to some extent, with a quite solid physique and moderately developed muscles.

Looking at his luxurious clothes and atmosphere, he looked like a successor of a prestigious family.

‘No. I don’t feel any internal energy at all. He has a unique atmosphere, but…’

But he couldn’t feel even a handful of internal energy. Baek Gong-yang, who felt something strange, cleared his throat and shouted.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, child. Didn’t your father steal the escort item and kill all our martial artists!”

“Do you have proof?”

“Proof?”

“Right. Proof.”

“Hahahaha!”

Baek Gong-yang suddenly burst into laughter.

“Child, do you think proof is only proof when you can see it with your eyes?”

Baek Gong-yang turned around and shouted at his subordinates.

“The escort item going to Shaolin has disappeared, only our Pine Truth Sect’s martial artists have died, and all the escort warriors of the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency have survived! Moreover, they say they can’t even remember what happened! Now! Yong-jeok!”

“Yes, Master.”

A martial artist named Yong-jeok came out. He was a martial artist with a rather slick face.

“Do you understand the situation?”

“Of course. Isn’t it obvious that the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency staged a self-staged act?”

“Have you even finished the Thousand Character Classic?”

“Hehe… I’ve only swung a sword since I was young.”

“Right. It’s something that even a martial artist who hasn’t finished the Thousand Character Classic would know. Is the guy who doesn’t know this and is looking for proof an idiot? Or a fool?”

“Kick.”

The faces of the Pine Truth Sect martial artists turned red. Some of them openly snickered.

It was as if he were calling him an idiot and a fool in front of the crowd.

Cheon Mungyeong, who saw his youngest son being insulted, turned red as if he would rush out at any moment. It wasn’t just Cheon Mungyeong. The faces of Jang-no and the other escort warriors were also stiff.

But since they had no weapons, they could only endure it.

Cheon Mubaeck shrugged his shoulders.

“So, the proof?”

“Child, have you also not finished the Thousand Character Classic? Well. You’re still a child, so it’s understandable!”

Now, laughter openly burst out.

Although he should have been intimidated by such an insulting scene, Cheon Mubaeck did not show a single change in his expression.

He just crossed his arms and mechanically uttered the words.

“So, the proof?”

“…Are you really going to play dumb?”

Baek Gong-yang shouted as he looked at the stiff-faced Cheon Mungyeong behind him.

“Chief of the escort agency! How long are you going to deny it! After killing all our martial artists!”

“Ha. You son of a bitch.”

“…!”

In an instant, a silence descended.

When a person who seems noble at first glance says or does something vulgar that doesn’t seem to suit them, the surroundings are bound to be flustered.

When a curse that a black-way would say came out of Cheon Mubaeck’s mouth, Baek Gong-yang’s face turned red. He was so dumbfounded that killing intent even glistened in Baek Gong-yang’s pupils.

“What did you say?”

“He hears this well. He always hears it well when he’s being cursed at.”

Baek Gong-yang and the Pine Truth Sect martial artists, who had suddenly been cursed at, gritted their teeth.

They were on the verge of drawing their swords and rushing out at any moment.

“Child. What you are now…”

“No. Just answer what I’m asking. You talk too damn much.”

“…!”

Baek Gong-yang’s eyebrow twitched. At first, he thought he had misheard the curse that had come out of the elegant appearance that was so pretty. But listening to the following words, he had definitely not misheard.

He had been disgraced by being cursed at by a young brat in front of people.

The moment Baek Gong-yang was about to open his mouth again.

Cheon Mubaeck raised his hand.

“So, the proof?”

Baek Gong-yang shut his mouth. The action and words that cut in during the short time he was exhaling to speak.

‘Did I lose my breath?’

In a fight between martial artists, breathing plays a big role.

Because it is breathing that circulates the internal energy.

Depending on how well one controls one’s breathing during a fight, there is a difference in the level of internal energy circulation.

A difference in internal energy circulation is a decisive variable that determines victory or defeat.

But for a moment, Baek Gong-yang had lost his breath to Cheon Mubaeck’s gesture and a single word.

‘What if this were a fight?’

A martial artist is bound to think of everything in terms of a fight.

If this were a fight, he would have suffered a fatal injury the moment he lost his breath.

When he recalled that fact, a cold sweat ran down Baek Gong-yang’s back.

‘Was it a coincidence?’

No matter how he looked at it, he was an ordinary guy with not a single bit of internal energy.

But an ominous feeling had been rising, and he had found the cause.

‘The gaze!’

It was that gaze.

“The proof?”

While mechanically repeating the same words with an indifferent expression, his pupils did not waver.

He just stood still and looked straight at Baek Gong-yang. While completely ignoring all the momentum of the Pine Truth Sect martial artists that was pouring down on him.

The moment he recognized the sense of unease, Baek Gong-yang was crushed by an unknown pressure.

“So, the proof?”

To him, Cheon Mubaeck’s emotionless voice rang out like thunder.

The corners of Baek Gong-yang’s eyes trembled.

An intangible momentum crushed Baek Gong-yang.

Baek Gong-yang bit his lip.

“All the circumstances point to a self-staged act by the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency. Instead of apologizing right away, why are you and your father so arrogant!”

“Master of the Pine Truth Sect! I will not tolerate any more outrage!”

Cheon Mungyeong, who could not endure it any longer, stepped forward. At the same time, the escort warriors all formed a formation around Cheon Mubaeck and Cheon Mungyeong. Although they had no weapons, their momentum was by no means inferior to that of the Pine Truth Sect.

In the midst of the brutal standoff that seemed as if it would clash at any moment, Cheon Mubaeck’s calm voice rang out.

“So there’s no proof, is there?”

“…!”

Baek Gong-yang shut his mouth for a moment.

It was as Cheon Mubaeck had said.

Although all the circumstances pointed to a self-staged act by the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency, there was no decisive physical evidence.

So wasn’t that why Shaolin had just detained them like this?

Shaolin had said that a more thorough investigation was needed. That there was a suspicious corner to suspecting the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency.

“The sight of you intimidating people without any proof is just like seeing the black-way or the unorthodox sects. Master of the Pine Truth Sect.”

At the words mixed with a lot of mockery, Baek Gong-yang’s molars were ground.

He had already suffered the humiliation of being cursed at by a young brat in front of his subordinates, so his patience was also at its limit.

He drew his sword.

“I can’t stand it anymore, child. I’ll have to fix your habit today.”

“Master of the Pine Truth Sect! What are you doing!”

“Shut up! Chief of the escort agency! I’ll take care of your son’s education for you!”

“…!”

A brutal atmosphere.

At that moment, Cheon Mubaeck’s voice cut in.

“I said it before, but you seem to have forgotten again, Master of the Pine Truth Sect.”

“Where did this young brat get such a nasty way of speaking to the end!”

“Is the secular branch of Shaolin above Shaolin?”

“What did you say?”

Cheon Mubaeck, who had been speaking quietly, suddenly shouted loudly.

Although he had not infused his internal energy, that voice was clearly embedded in the ears of the crowd.

“Inside Shaolin, no one can harbor a killing intent, draw a weapon, or fight. It is a precept of Shaolin. Is the Pine Truth Sect, a secular branch, ignoring that precept!”

“…!”

How could he not know the precepts of Shaolin?

Hadn’t he also learned martial arts at Shaolin when he was young?

Baek Gong-yang, who could not guess the reason why he was suddenly talking about the precepts, hardened when he saw the group of people who appeared behind him.

“What is this, Master of the Pine Truth Sect!”

A group of people with strong physiques and an unusual momentum.

It was the Arhat monks.

In particular, the person who was running at the very front was the head of the Arhat Hall, Master Muso.

At his appearance, Baek Gong-yang’s face hardened. Master Muso let out a lion’s roar with a face that was contorted like a fierce god.

“To draw a sword inside the sacred Shaolin! What are you doing now!”

“Master of the hall.”

“I heard everything on my way here. Is what that young boy said true?”

Baek Gong-yang’s face wrinkled as if he had eaten shit.

The reason he had deliberately shouted loudly just now was to make it heard by Master Muso and the Arhat monks.

The gazes were focused on Cheon Mubaeck for a moment.

Then, at the unfolding situation, Baek Gong-yang and the Pine Truth Sect martial artists were dumbfounded.

The nonchalant expression was nowhere to be seen.

“I am Cheon Mubaeck, the youngest son of the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency. I heard the news that my father had lost contact at the Manli Cheonhyang, and I came running here in surprise, but they said they would kill us because we were the culprits…”

“…!”

In an instant, the crowd was dumbfounded.

To the point where they couldn’t think that he was the same reckless person who had cursed just now, Cheon Mubaeck’s appearance was so pitiful that they wanted to hug him right away.

A look of pity even appeared on the face of Master Muso, who was like a divine general who beat down demons.

“Master, did you really intimidate this child and the escort agency?”

“How could that be!”

“Then why did you lead your martial artists here and draw your sword?”

Baek Gong-yang bit his lip.

The head of the Arhat Hall, Master Muso, was an outstanding martial artist who dealt with external enemies who challenged Shaolin, but he was also a person who strictly abided by the precepts.

‘It’s a checkmate!’

The situation, no matter who looked at it, was a situation where he had broken the precepts and had intimidated people, so there was no way out.

“Master.”

It was then.

Cheon Mubaeck quietly called Master Muso.

“…?”

“Perhaps the Master of the Pine Truth Sect was momentarily angry because he cared for the martial artists who had suffered a misfortune. Please, Master, show your broad mercy.”

“Eum!”

Master Muso sighed as he looked at Cheon Mubaeck’s eyes.

At this moment, Cheon Mubaeck was quietly circulating the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art.

The Heaven-Shaking Soul Art, which was imbued with the energy of subduing demons, was similar to the momentum felt from the internal energy of Shaolin.

“There is a Buddha in you, young master.”

Master Muso looked at Cheon Mubaeck with a slightly favorable gaze and nodded his head.

“Master of the Pine Truth Sect, I will not mention what happened today. But even that young boy understands enough, so please, Master, wait until the accurate investigation results come out.”

“…I understand.”

In the end, Baek Gong-yang raised the white flag.

As he retreated, he glared at Cheon Mubaeck. The arrogant child who had cursed at him just now was gone. Didn’t he look pitiful, with a weak expression and a pitiful heart?

He felt as if his insides would turn over at that detestable appearance.

The problem was that since Cheon Mubaeck had said that, Baek Gong-yang, whether he liked it or not, could not approach the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency until the investigation results came out.

‘Did he know it would turn out like this?’

In fact, Baek Gong-yang and the Pine Truth Sect martial artists had been intimidating and harassing the escort warriors of the Azure Star Escort Agency Agency who were detained at Shaolin.

Although Baek Gong-yang had secretly encouraged it, to the martial artists, they were perceived as the culprits who had killed their fellow martial artists.

Baek Gong-yang looked at Cheon Mubaeck, who had turned the situation around with just a few words.

While they were returning to their respective places, Baek Gong-yang whispered as he brushed past Cheon Mubaeck.

“You bastard! If it weren’t for Shaolin, you would have died by my sword.”

Cheon Mubaeck smirked and said as if he were passing by.

“We have something in common.”

“What?”

“I had the same thought.”

“…!”

(End of Chapter)

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